Through the language glass : how words colour your world / Guy Deutscher.

Author
Deutscher, Guy, 1969- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : William Heinemann, 2010.
Description
309 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

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      Guy Deutscher argues that, contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, language does relate to culture and thought, does reflect our own culture and creates a lens through which we see the world.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-292) and index.
      Contents
      • Naming the rainbow
      • A long-wave herring
      • The rude populations inhabiting foreign lands
      • Those who said our things before us
      • Plato and the Macedonian swineherd
      • Crying whorf
      • When the Sun doesn't rise in the east
      • Sex and syntax
      • Russian blues
      • Forgive us our ignorances.
      ISBN
      • 9780434016907 ((hbk.))
      • 043401690X ((hbk.))
      OCLC
      520727800
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